In the present time veterinary e-certification system is
being tested in conditions of product export from the EU countries to
Kalinigrad Oblast according to the agreement between the Rosselkhoznadzor and
Directorate General of the European Commission on issues of public health and
food product safety.

At the invitation of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority
the Rosselkhoznadzor specialists will visit the Netherlands on December 6-12,
2016 with the aim of joint inspection of seed potato consignments destined to
be exported to the Russian Federation. Based on the inspection results the
Rosselkhoznadzor will take a decision concerning the possibility of import of
inspected consignments to the Russian Federation.

At the forefront of XII session of the Russia-Venezuela High
Level Intergovernmental Commission the talks between Rosselkhoznadzor with
Russian MoA participation and specialists of the Bolivian National Institute of Integral Agricultural Health,
Ministry of People’s Power for Agriculture and Lands and
representatives of Bolivian Embassy in the Russian Federation was held. The meeting
was devoted to harmonization of the wording of the Agreement on Russian Wheat
Export to Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

11th OIE/FAO FMD Reference Laboratory Network
Annual Meeting took place on 30 November — 2 December, 2016 in Paris. The
FGBI «Federal Centre for Animal Health» subordinate to the Rosselkhoznadzor as
FAO/OIE FMD Reference Laboratory was presented by D. Lozovoy, Director of the
Centre and A. Metlin, Deputy Director for Research and Monitoring.

Opening the meeting Sergey Dankvert remarked that decrease
of agricultural product supplies from the Netherlands to Russia due to
introduction of the Western anti-Russia sanctions and response economic
measures was relatively mild – from 5 billion to 760 million US dollars.
Imports from Holland were also restructured; currently mostly breeding animals
are being imported from there and their annual imports amount to 10 thousand
animals. Increase in plant genetic products (seeds and planting stock) is also
possible. This type of products is especially promising since according to the
checks performed by the Rosselkhoznadzor the Dutch planting stock is being now
supplied through the Baltic States and Byelorussia disguised as Polish ones.

Negotiations between the Rosselkhoznadzor and Animal and
Plant Protection Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food
Supply of Brazil were held in Brasilia (Brazil) on 29 November 2016.

A
conference call was held on the 29th of November, 2016 and it was
devoted to a common task that both countries (Russian and Japan) have to address,
i.e. mutual assessment of veterinary and sanitary surveillance systems in the
two countries in order to find an optimal way of increasing commodity turnover.

The two
sides will discuss cooperation in veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance at
the meeting that is to be held on the 1st of December, 2016. They
will also touch upon results of the meeting of the Russian-Dutch working group
on agriculture that was held on the 27th of October, 2016.

Negotiations between Head of the Federal Service for
Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Co-chair of the Intergovernmental
Russian-Chilean Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation Sergey Dankvert
and Ambassador of Chile to the Russian Federation Juan Eduardo Eguiguren are to
be held on the 25th of November. The meeting
will be held immediately before Juan Eduardo Eguiguren completes his diplomatic
mission in Russia. The sides are planning to summarize results of joint work
and discuss current relations between the Embassy of Chile and the
Rosselkhoznadzor.